NEWS AND NOTES 



Important Meetings in Washington 



AMONG the important meetings to 

 be held in Washington during the 

 month of December are the following : 

 The Southern Commercial Congress on 

 December jth ; The meeting of the 

 Governors and their advisors on De- 

 cember 8th ; The meeting of the Na- 

 tional Rivers and Harbors Congress on 

 December Qth, loth, and nth. and on 

 the same dates the meeting of the \Yom- 

 an's National Rivers and Harbors Con- 

 gress. 



The growth of the Woman's Rivers 

 and Harbors Congress has been little 

 less than phemonenal. Organized on 

 June 2t_)th last, the Congress already has 

 branches in twelve states. Following 

 are the state vice-presidents of this or- 

 ganization: Alabama, Mrs. ().('. Wiley, 

 141, College St., Troy: Florida, Mrs. 

 T. M. Shackleford, Tallahassee; 

 Hawaii, Mrs. A. F. Knudsen. Kakaha, 

 Kaai, T. H. ; Indiana, Mrs. N. L. Ag- 

 new, 307 Michigan St., Valparaiso; 

 Iowa, Mrs. J. L. Kennedy. Sioux City; 

 Louisiana, Mrs. \Y. A. Wilkinson, 

 Coushatta ; Massachusetts, Mrs. Em- 

 mons Crocker, 48 Mechanic St., Fitch- 

 burg; Maryland, Mrs. M. M. North; 

 Missouri Airs. E. C. Ellis, 2456 Tracy 

 Ave., Kansas City; North Carolina, 

 Mrs. Lindsay Patterson, Winston- 

 Salem; Ohio, Mrs. J. F. Ellison, 2327 

 Ashland Ave., Cincinnati ; Tennessee. 

 Mrs. Denton McMillin, 125 7th Ave., 

 North. Nashville. 



The officers of the Woman's National 

 Rivers and Harbors Congress are : 

 President, Mrs. Hoyle Tompkies, 980 

 Jordan St., Shreveport, La. ; Corre- 

 sponding Secretary, Mrs. Frances Shut- 

 tleworth, 621 Cotton St., Shreveport, 

 La. ; Yice-president, Mrs. J. Claiborne 

 Foster, Shreveport, La. ; Recording 

 Secretary, Mrs. A. B. Avery, Shreve- 

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port, La.; Treasurer, Mrs. L. C. Allen, 

 Shreveport, La. ; Auditor, Mrs. J. D. 

 Shreveport, La. 



Work of The Connecticut Forestry Association 



ON SEPT KM HER 2ist The Con- 

 necticut Forestry Association held 

 a field meeting in the town of L T nion. 

 About forty members attended, and, 

 considering the inaccessibility of the 

 meeting place. this attendance was con- 

 -idered highly satisfactory. An inter- 

 esting address was delivered by Mr. 

 Geo. Myers, after which the State Nur- 

 sery was inspected. In this nursery 

 350,000 white pines are now being 

 raised. Later in the day the members 

 present tramped over the state forest 

 and examined the plantations of white 

 and Scotch pines which have been made 

 during the past three years. Much 

 interest was expressed, and many an- 

 nounced their intention of planting up 

 M>me of their own waste lands during 

 the coming year. As a result of the 

 example set by the state, over 250,000 

 trees have already been planted by 

 private owners in the town of Union. 



"A Primer of Conservation" 



THE Forest Service has just issued, 

 as circular No. 157, a little booklet 

 that should be in the hands of every 

 member of The American Forestry As- 

 sociation and everv friend of the con- 



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servation movement in the United 

 States. The title of this pamphlet is, 

 "A Primer of Conservation.'' It is 

 written by Treadwell Cleveland, Jr., 

 and presents in concise form the case 

 for the conservation of our natural re- 

 sources. There is not a superfluous 

 paragraph in the pamphlet ; from the 

 introduction, the only possible fault of 



